Amazon is the new Walmart -- and Whole Foods just inherited all of the e-commerce giant's baggage (AMZN)

Amazon is already changing Whole Foods— and it'sa departure from the grocery chain's hippie roots. Amazon is increasingly being painted as the "new Walmart," a villain that is hurting American small business. Fairly or unfairly, bothAmazon and Whole Foods' reputations are shifting away from their progressive former identities. Whole Foods got its start as a hippie, natural foods store with a feel-good message. Now, it's owned by a company that's giving Walmart a run for its moneyas one of the ...